Popular "Right Brain, Left Brain" theory debunked....

It turns out, though, that this idea of "brained-ness" might be more of a figure of speech than anything, as researchers have found that these
personality traits may not have anything to do with which side of the brain you use more.

Researchers from the University of Utah found with brain imaging that people don't use the right sides of their brains any more than the left sides
of their brains, or vice versa.

"It's absolutely true that some brain functions occur in one or the other side of the brain. Language tends to be on the left, attention more on the
right. But people don’t tend to have a stronger left- or right-sided brain network. It seems to be determined more connection by connection," study
researcher Jeff Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., said in a statement.

So, even thought it was "debunked" since both sides are used and one isn't greater than the other. It is still true that the "left" is more
connected to language/identifying while the "right" is more connected to attention/awareness.

So I guess focusing on attention/awareness (what is present/happening/occur NOW) does still have its benefit for tapping into the right brain.

I like it when research comes out that makes educational psychologists look like total arses. One thing I'm hesitant on is whether the research was
specifically looking for that personality type associated with lateralization or if they were looking at lateralization as a whole. I agree that it
would be very inefficient to have an inequitable amount of functioning between the two halves of the brain so it's highly unlikely that somebody is
more "left brained" and another is more "right brained". Just curious as to how this affects handedness. I'm a total ambi (can separate
functions concurrently between both hands so left hand can write "cat" and right hand can write "dog"). I suspect that handedness, however, may
be more of a learned trait (or laziness, teacher rebuke, or no interest) in that hand preference is refined for one hand typically. Not training the
muscle memory at an earlier age would make writing with the left "sloppy" for a right hander as an adult; ergo, they are "right handed".

But, if this specific research is correct, I'd like to shove some academic journals in the butts of decades of educational psychologists that focused
intensely on this subject with children--on second thought, toss in the entire "creativity" movement, too. Yep yep.

It's not utterly tossed. As someone who was prenatally exposed to diethylstilbestrol, the research into the effects of that exposure is something
that I rather follow for obvious reasons. Research on the effects of diethylstilbestrol (DES) and its possible effect on hemispheric and language
lateralization, including handedness, has been ongoing. The flavor of that one is that women exposed to DES have a more "masculinising effect" on
lateralization, inducing more left brain activity.

Maybe I shouldn't laugh though as gender genie usually thinks I'm a guy...

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